Ninja Rap

Have you heard the one about the student getting dressed up as a ninja and nearly getting arrested? No, seriously, this happened a few days ago at UGA. What makes this story really interesting is not just the ninja factor, which by itself would lend a certain awesomeness to the story, but that the guy was coming from the Wesley Foundation down there, which was hosting a "ninjas vs. pirates" themed party.

Let me stop the presses for just a second to comment on how freaking awesome a ninjas vs. pirates event would be. That's a definite mental note to be stored for the future, and it's an idea that I wish I'd thought of during my years at VT's Wesley Foundation.

Okay, so the guy comes from Wesley to the dining hall, some ATF agents notice him "acting suspiciously" (and apparently he's not practicing very good ninja techniques if they saw him), thought they saw a gun on him, and proceeded to detain him until the campus police came to sort everything out. If you check out the picture on the college newspaper's site, it does look like there was more than a little unnecessary force on the part of the agents, once they found out he had no gun, and I'm sure the university community is loving them for it. Who knew that the Bureau of Alochol, Tobacco, and Firearms' "Safe Neighborhoods" training details the proper way to take down a neighborhood ninja?

But hey, it's not all bad. The guy wasn't seriously injured, and now he's got fifteen minutes of infamy for being an on-campus ninja. Not to mention some potential lawsuit winnings. You could do a lot worse, my friend, you could do a lot worse.